Tailpiece

Lobster Issue 50 (Winter 2005/6)

[…] of preparing this issue for the printer I was contacted by someone who claimed that he was the victim of a vast conspiracy – led, apparently by MI5 – which involved, inter alia, TV newsreaders watching and commenting on his life while he watched the news. He had gone to extraordinary lengths, and spent […]

Britain spinning in the Sibel Edmonds web

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] British media link was The Observer’s David Rose, who wrote an article for Vanity Fair three years ago.(6) Rose recently revealed that he had a relationship with MI5 and MI6 in the past,(7) and, given the proximity of British intelligence to the A. Q. Khan network, which forms the core proliferation group which Edmonds […]

Print: Journals and book review

Lobster Issue 17 (1988)

[…] to fix Stalker. It was nothing subtle: leaning on hookers to claim Stalker fathered their child; leaning on gay men to etc etc. This conspiracy – with MI5 – followed Stalker around. Alas he was a clean cop. ‘Special Branch’, as Prince calls him, even claims LSD was put into a drink intended for […]

Clippings Digest. June/July 1984

Lobster Issue 6 (1984)

[…] Robert Armstrong, one of the real pillars of this country’s secret state, is apparently in favour of more ‘open government’. Times 2 July. Another memoire, by ex MI5 Joan Miller, suppressed by the government. Sunday Times 29 July As is an article by this country’s leading (only?) academic expert on Argentina/the Falklands et al, […]

Two views of Dorril: MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations

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Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000)

MI6: Fifty years of Special Operations Stephen Dorril Fourth Estate, London, 2000, £25 hb   Harold Smith As I can testify from personal experience, having in 1960 been summoned to Government House in Lagos, Nigeria, to have my death sentence pronounced by the Governor General, MI6 is brutal, cruel, merciless and totally unforgiving. Dorril’s courage, […]

The 1986 National Front Split, Part 1

Lobster Issue 29 (1995)

[…] capacity as Chairman. He commenced with the inimitable opening lines that ‘Some of you may now regard me as a Zionist infiltrator, others as an employee of MI5. There are no doubt some of you who do regard me as a flim-flam Tory.’ He rejected the accusations (of course), but that he was having […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 56 (Winter 2008/9)

[…] attacks ‘the relentless pressure of a security state’ and describes the government’s response to the terrorism threat as ‘mediaeval delusions’; (3) and when the former head of MI5 describes the response to 9/11 as ‘a huge overreaction’.(4) The minds of bankers Some years ago I was told the following story by someone who was […]

The Intelligence Game: Illusions and Delusions of International Espionage

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Lobster Issue 23 (1992)

[…] Clearly we need something to keep an eye on putative ‘revolutionaries’ with access to Semtex — but do we need the present organisations? Do we really need MI5, for example? The CIA was originally going to be an open, intelligence-gathering agency. Would American economic interests have been better or worse served since 1948 had […]

More Book Reviews

Lobster Issue 28 (December 1994)

[…] of being evidence. The authors devote just one page to the security services, quote a couple of books, and get the name of the former D-G of MI5 wrong, calling him Maurice Hanley! If the Healey faction of the WRP have any evidence on the alleged conspiracy to destabilize the WRP it is not […]

The View from the Bridge. Psy-ops. Common Cause. Larry Flynt. Hepple/Matthews. John Ware

Lobster Issue 35 (Summer 1998)

[…] three times annually by two British eccentrics with a limited distribution to “about 50 like-minded friends.” N.B. It is anti-intelligence, specifically against the Western intelligence services, particularly MI5, MI6 and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The subject matter is apparently varied, eclectic, and highly interesting and informative for intelligence professionals and buffs.’ While good […]

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